As someone who needs dialysis every other day, Don McLaren has learned to make the best of an inconvenient situation.
Now helping him through those four-hour dialysis sessions at the Flin Flon General Hospital is a brand new TV with headphones.
“It’d be a long time in here without them,” McLaren said last week from his dialysis chair.
The Flin Flon Health Auxiliary recently donated four ceiling-mounted television sets, complete with their own headphones, to the hospital’s dialysis room.
The TVs replace the room’s older models, while the headphones provide a newfound level of ease and privacy for patients.
The auxiliary’s Sheila Sproxton said patient comfort is a focus for the volunteer organization.
To that end, members sew “compassion bags” to hold hospital patients’ possessions and provide personal hygiene items to patients who arrive without them.
The auxiliary has also provided plush toys to be given to children who are having surgery or dental work done.
Prior to donating the TVs and headphones to the dialysis room, the auxiliary also put $5,000 toward the revamped ER to be built at the hospital.
